On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Hans-Peter Carpenter <theca...@netscape.net> wrote: > On 04/29/2013 08:00 PM, Edwin Sharp wrote: >> >> Volunteers need personal guidance from more experienced volunteers. >> >> It is easy to give up trying to figure out what to do on your own. >> >> Endless nested emails don't help. >> >> Volunteers should be given levels according to their time in the >> project. >> >> So a level three is guiding level two, level two is guiding level one >> etc. >> >> When a fresh volunteer joins, the head of the project is assigning him >> a personal tutor. >> >> With a close guidance, learning, confidence and motivation are much >> better. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013, at 15:55, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> I don't know if anyone counted, but it seemed like we >>> had 15 or more people volunteer to help. But of the offers of help, >>> not many ultimately contributed. >>> Why is this so? >>> Regards, >>> -Rob > > Hi all, > > Flame suit on. > > I have joined LibreOffice and OpenOffice at the same time, because I do not > care about your politics/rivalry/whatever you wanna call it (if there is > any) ... I also joined in on ODFAuthors. >
There is absolutely no problem with contributing to more than one project. I know of Developers, QA, Forum support, etc., who happily contribute to both AOO and LO. > Now, I have already contributed to LibreOffice and ODF authors. As for > OpenOffice, I have no visibility on issues. On the LibreOffice side, the > list asks ppl for stuff, could you check this or that, read through this > other thing ... that is the reason why I contributed there first. > It may depend on when you joined the mailing list. We did have several posts explaining how new contributors could get involved, pointing to where on the wiki we're tracking tasks, etc. But we should probably repost that information periodically. > I am a bit lost, mostly because I do not understand all the differences > between LibreOffice, OpenOffice, ODFAuthors ... ok, I know LO is a fork of > OOo and that OOo has now become AOOo ... > ODFAuthors was an independent group that wrote user guides for OpenOffice.org. But both LO and AOO now have their own documentation efforts within the project. So it is not clear (to me at least) what role ODFAuthors plays today, after the LO fork, and after OpenOffice.org became Apache OpenOffice. > I have checked out (as in svn co http://....) AOO, I have no idea where the > doc is, what I could contribute where ... I need a little help or at least > pointers. > No need to touch SVN for working with documentation. It is all on the wiki. A good place to start is here: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-doc.html Then you can see the status of items, and grab some to work on here: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Status As you see, there are a variety of tasks, authoring, proof reading, technical review, etc. Regards, -Rob > Regards, > > HP > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
